biggirl
The school district has several options for expelled students. The Truancy Abatement and Transitional Education Center (TATE) primarily works with expelled students. TATE is a 1 semester program that is designed to work with students. Much of the curriculum forcus on life/social skills. Students may earn credit toward a high school diploma but only stay one semester. Students at TATE also participate in service learning activities and several different "groups" that helps this young men and women work on their issues.
At the end of the semester, if the student has participated appropriately the staff will write a recommendation for re-entry to the school district.
TAGOS is a project based charter school that may take expelled students. Students may graduate from TAGOS with a TAGOS diploma.
There are other options for special education students and/or students on Juvenile Probation.

The district, led by TATE does a great job of trying to work with these students. Remember, some students do not have the same background or belief system as those of us who were successful in school.

jtmek
Not many, some expelled students go to TAGOS often after they have completed the TATE program.

Latinmami...

...If they really want to turn their lives around, they have the ability to do so. They may have to realize that the first lesson is that if you screw up, there are consequences that need to be dealt with. And one of those is that you might have to go to Blackhawk and get a GED.

LOTS of people have made pretty good lives for themselves with a GED...including myself. You can still go to college...you just need to work harder for it to prove to them that you won't screw up again.

This is called "growing up" and the sooner they do it, the better off they and the people around them will be.

madman - i agree with all those points, on one hand it does not make sense to make it easier for someone to go through school when they could not do it the right way. But on the other hand and only for this reason if the child really does want to change their life around and correct what mistakes that they made and try to make something out of themselves other than a prison career wouldn't you rather see that done instead of oh they didnt do it right the first time screw this child they are left on their own?

What about Charter School in Janesville isn't that an alternative..?

Not sure where the world is that a business does not have some sort of project manager overseeing a project where team members are given a directive to figure out and implement a specific goal. Sounds a little bit like "project based curriculum".

LatinMami...

...It's actually pretty rare that it is just ONE mistake that results in an expulsion.

On the other hand, I won't speak for flying monkeys, but the idea of charter schools pi$$es me right the hell off. These schools do NOT have the same attendance requirements as a mainstream school, not do they have the same credit minimums.

Take a drive downtown sometime during class hours and see how many kids are wandering around, not doing much except smoking.

If I was an employer, there is not a snowballs chance that I'd hire a charter school "graduate" even over an out and out high school drop-out. At least the drop-out actually DID something, rather than wait for a teacher to tell him or her that "society will help you with what you need to learn"

flying-monkeys - do you believe that a child who has messed up and gets expelled but then realizes what they had done is really wrong and wants to change that they should not be given a second chance? should they just be left behind because they made 1 poor choice?

Let's get rid of the "Alternative" schools.
Wasting thousands of dollars, so someone can
get a regular HS diploma, without going to a
"regular" high school. How DUMB is this?
If these young people cannot "handle" high school,
do you think their future employers will give them
half days, project based, full time, full benefit salaries?
I highly doubt it! In the adult world, you have to WORK.
Your boss doesn't care if you get along with the rules and regulations (procedures).
ie: don't like those rules, have scheduling/personal conflicts to attend to... etc etc etc.
If you don't/can't, you are gone!
Sorry people- if you want to succeed you have to follow ALL the steps... LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
If you can't "do" high school- you will have a VERY hard time making it in the "real world". Especially now.

TAGOS
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is that an alternative high school? I know back when i was in school in walworth county they have the alternative school for kids who are on the verge of not graduating or expelled. at first it was very small but then grew to a large base of kids. i think it is good to have a second chance school but only if the kids are serious about getting their act turned around before it is too late.

Many of them will go to TAGOS where our hard earned tax dollars will be paying for 2 more teachers to do "project based" curriculum!

Here we go again with the marijuana issue .

my best friend when i was in high school got expelled for having alchohol in her locker which it turned out it was apple juice that fermented (sp?) anyways she decided she still wanted to graduate so she enrolled in this boot camp school and graduate with honors and then went on to change her whole life and went ino the army and now a college grad from nursin school, so if these two really wanted to they could change their lives around and make the best out of a bad situation

What happens to the students who are expelled? Are they home-schooled, go to school via the internet, or is there an alternative school around here?

Age may have something to do with the severity of the expulsions. Say, if the student who repeatedly refused to follow school rules is 18 years of age for example.

I would think that the student selling the marijuana was probably not following school rules.

Nice- thank you.

So the kid not following the rules gets expelled forever but the kid that planned on selling weed to our children has a chance of getting back into school. Wow, that makes A LOT of sense.............

Deja vu?